New wave hits Bedford Square

Im sick to the teeth of these uninspiring 'pavillions'. Experiment with computer generated form, yes! by all means and maybe even a human scale mock up, but then just let it go. Lets not put it on public display and append a concept statement conceived after the event.

It is different. I quite like it. I would possibly like it more if I didn't know that it would probably be rotten in 12 months time.

A "Pavilion" it is not, a fine sculpture it is, worthy indeed of a final year RCA Student. Anyone capable of designing this will create interesting and challenging buildings and spaces. The AA school continues to make its Alumni proud. Keep up the good work.

I agree entirely with Gar...it is uninspired and is simply a realisation of a 3D model and nothing else...why not design portable shelters for the homeless or victims of war...something which challenges the humna need for shelter: the fundemental core of architecture...?

Extreme landscape modelling showing some skill at asteroids: all that is required is the placement of the buildings and some sort of master plan, but definitely eyecatching so far - and it might get me there tonight!

Well done, Danecia!

This architecture of parametrics and the high-tech is all very spectacular, but it comes from a boring obsession with technology and not from a concern for our environment- that is, an environment of wellbeing, and as such is redundant.

if people wanna save the world they should go and join salvation army and work at soup station being at school is about trying things out and that includes working as a team and build something wonderful like this

A redundant monument to the spectacle!

Oh stop whining, I'm sure you'd kill to have something like this realised. Its a very nice piece of work and I say this from my experiences at the show opening. The AA may have a fetish for computer generated form but some of its actually quite good. Some of its terrible but either way, maybe go and have a closer look before you rubbish it all.

more an exercise in jewellery CAD/CAM manufacturing than an exercise in architecture.... pretty much as superficial as it gets, come on AA this is lame!

Having been there - it's not a habitable space, but have you seen the working drawing set??? (It's in the exhibition.) An unbelievable set of drawings and a great experience in collaborative working! Any of those students would be an asset to the profession from taking a complex form and working it through to the detail and refining it together as a joint project. It's too bad they keep recognising one person as 'the designer' because clearly this form could not have been resolved by one person alone.

We need the supposedly 'superficial' as much as we need the fundamental, afterall thats what pavilions are for surely, trying out ideas in a playful way. By the same arguements as above folk would demolish the Barcelona pavilion, hands up who would want that? Works such as this should be seen as a good thing regardless of aesthetic taste or pseudo-political leanings. We need to give things a go, learn the good and bad bits about what we've done and move forward. Furthermore we should be encouraging and supporting students, not putting them off architecture as a profession before they've even got their foot in the door.

There is a division of opinion here based on those who believe architecture has some overarching conceptual substance and those who have restrained their focus to that which provides aesthetic impact. I would be the latter. If I was to approach architecture on the basis of impact I would be hurting a lot of people

This year I was not there to visit. As far as I understood u cannot sit on to have ur drink . It could have been a brilliant idea had it considered `use`

Anything experimental realized at a one to one scale, regardless of conceptual origin or method, should be applauded. This type of work is, finally, beginning to materialize the, mostly until now, conceptual dreams that have been on display at all the other architectural end-of-the-year exhibitions for years. The students and their tutors should be congratulated for what they have achieved as, compared, say, to the Serpentine Pavilions budget and access to know-how, it certainly is not a bad effort. I am very interested to see how these pavilions will evolve during upcoming years...

“sculptural installation and prototype that defies classification” - come on people, really, I haven't heard such pretentious drivel in a reeeally long time. This makes me chuckle for all the wrong reasons. It's a sculpture. It goes in that classification. It lacks the 2 fundametal things a pavillion should provide; rest and shelter.

Tom, It seems that this work has consumed an enormous amount of time and energy, but I'm afraid I don't believe in applauding something just for the effort that's gone into it. If you look at the work, and take away the spectacle and the excessive use of digital technology, and then consider those words of Mies- 'I don't want to interesting. I want to be good', you are left with nothing. It might be interesting, but there's nothing 'good' about it. I just feel it's a bit superfluous.

Yes indeed....I don't have the energy to think up something as eloquent as Peter above so I'll just say ........"yawn"

all movements in the history of architecture were triggered by technical innovations. Today, the availability of new tools has open the potential of the discipline to an extend that has been far from being fully explored. These types of experiments are crucial. There is no doubt that they will serve a role in the evolution of our building environment. There is more time to address issues such as resting, seating, having a drink... the real innovation is there.

I agree with most of you and laugh at others who always have to use large words to try and make a point over somebody else...? to me its like being in stringfellows and some drunken lap dancer fallls upon you....get in while you can...on another note why do we always see something on the corner of the square like an empty can of 'specialbrew' or dog excrement...? surely the alumini at the mighty AA could use thier imagination and do something different...why not rent out the garden for a week or put something in a proper square....?

This manifestation of the AA's egoistic preoccupation with distancing architectural discourse with what really improve's our fellow man's well being, and detaching ones soul with a conception of architecture predominantly via an alian interface is discouraging to say the least for a school wich seems to have lost the plot. Brett please leave the school while there is still an ounce of hope for the future of the AA as a serious place for the conception of architecture and not just BLOBITECHTURE.....!